Local MSF aid worker Dr. Rachel Seay will discuss the challenges that keep women in developing countries from getting the health care they urgently need.

Because Tomorrow Needs Her is an urgent call to all involved and all who care that more needs to be done to address the specific medical needs of women and girls around the world. We know how to save their lives, yet 800 women die every day from pregnancy-related causes. We know how to ease their suffering, yet many victims of sexual violence go without any medical or psychological care. Millions of newborns die in the first weeks of life from preventable causes. And while we know how to keep HIV-positive mothers from passing the virus to their babies, every day 700 children come into the world with HIV. The project includes photos and videos by award-winning photographers.

Dr. Seay will give a multimedia presentation about these issues and others, and also share her experiences treating women and children as OBGYN for MSF in South Sudan and Sierra Leone.

A Q&A will follow.

This is a FREE event, but seating is limited so please register in advance!
You may cancel your reservation if you are no longer able to attend.

About the presenter:

Dr. Seay is an OBGYN physician and researcher at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She received her MD from the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She completed her Internship and Residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences in Washington, DC, where she served as Chief Resident. She has served as Visiting Clinical Faculty in Thomonde, Haiti; at Hospital Nacional Juan Jose Ortega in Coatepeque, Guatemala; and at Orotta School of Medicine in Asmara, Eritrea. She has completed emergency OBGYN missions for MSF in Sierra Leone and South Sudan, and is involved in the “Because Tomorrow Needs Her” women’s health initiative. She is the 2015 Fellow in the History of American Ob/Gyn at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Washington DC. Dr. Seay’s scholarly interests include the history of medicine, strategies to decrease maternal mortality, and designing medical education curricula in global health.

For more information about Because Tomorrow Needs Her, visit womenshealth.msf.org